Thursday, December 6, 2007

French Conversation

//french conversation

FRENCH CONVERSATION

He hears her voice now and then,one of several women,self-consciously discussing in French the unseen-by-him new Paris opera house.He remembers waitingto buy a ticket to hear Callasunder a dripping umbrella, on a rainy afternoon in Paris.

The guests departwith a finale of “au revoirs.”She hurries to him, and pulls down the shadesso the late afternoon sunwon’t be in his eyes.Their pear tree’s snowdrift bloomis now hidden from sight.